Commonwealth Games Australia

Kurt Fearnley inspires with message for all athletes

Champion para-athlete Kurt Fearnley addresses the 2020 Kurt Fearnley Scholarship with an inspirational message as the six recipients currently face one of the biggest challenges the sports world has ever seen.

2020 Kurt Fearnley Scholarship holders unveiled

Six budding young para-sport athletes will have the opportunity to follow the path of one of Australia’s greatest ever athletes after being named as recipients of the 2020 Kurt Fearnley Scholarship.

Tokyo 2020 and the Commonwealth Games and Youth Games

The International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee have confirmed the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

This announcement will have varying and yet to be determined impacts on the 2021 Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago and will require alterations to planning to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Track team pedalling forward to Tokyo

Twelve of the fifteen members of the Australian track cycling team named for the Tokyo Olympic Games were members of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games team that dominated the Anna Meares Velodrome in 2018.

2019 Kurt Fearnley Scholarships Recap

What a year it has been for the 2019 Kurt Fearnley Scholarship recipients. recapping the years of the five athletes of the inaugural scholarship program.

Australia claim T20 World Cup Crown

Inspired by a swashbuckling 75 by player of the match Alyssa Healy and an unbeaten 78 by player of the tournament Beth Mooney, Australia claimed back-to-back T20 World Cup crowns.

Commonwealth Day 2020

This year the theme for the 2020 Commonwealth Day celebrations is ‘delivering a common future: connecting, innovating, transforming.’

The aim of commemorating Commonwealth Day is to promote understanding of global issues, international co-operation and the work of the Commonwealth of Nations to improve the lives of its citizens.

2020 International Women’s Day

We celebrate International Women’s Day by recognising all the women, from grassroots sport to those who have forged the pathways on the international stage – all of whom have made an impact in sport and the broader community.

The International Women’s Day 2020 campaign theme is #EachforEqual